Join new host Stephanie Dorvil and guest Joe Metro (Reed Smith, LLP) as they discuss the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in this first of a series of 3 podcast episodes on this important piece of legislation.  This episode focuses on the inflation rebate provisions and their impacts on Part B and D drugs. For CMS’s info on the IRA, see: https://www.cms.gov/inflation-reduction-act-and-medicare

Inflation Reduction Act Reforms Part 1: An Overview and Discussion of Inflation Rebates

In this week’s Hlbytes Roundup, host Jeff Wurzburg discusses the byte entitled “Ongoing Change Healthcare Breach” submitted by David Ermer and more. For more on this story and others like it, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

Ongoing Change Healthcare Breach

In this episode, host Jeff Wurzburg is joined by BRG’s Joanna Younts, editor and coauthor of the Health Law Section’s newest publication “A Practical Guide to Reimbursement in Managed Care,” to give us a sneak peak of some of the themes covered in the book.  This book provides a detailed historical account of Medicare reimbursement and payment approaches used across nearly all provider types, along with a practical discussion of commercial payer contracting and payment strategies. For more information on the book and how to purchase it, go to https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/435774403/

A Practical Guide to Reimbursement in Managed Care

In this episode of HLbytes Roundup, host Ramana Rameswaran reviews the Washington Roundup in the March 8, 2024 issue of HLbytes submitted by David Ermer related to the Change Healthcare Outage, HHS’s announcement, CMS’s Accelerated Payments to Part A and Advance Payments to Part B suppliers that came out on Saturday March 9th, 2024 and HHS’s press release around the cross-government public inquiry into private equity. For more on this story and others like it, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

Sources: 
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/05/hhs-statement-regarding-the-cyberattack-on-change-healthcare.html
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/change-healthcare/optum-payment-disruption-chopd-accelerated-payments-part-providers-and-advance

HHS And CMS Responses To Change Healthcare Outage And Cross Government Inquiry On Private Equity

In this episode, host Ramana Rameswaran is joined by co-presenters Shannon Britton Hartsfield, Health Care partner at Holland & Knight and Jeremy Shapiro-Barr, attorney at the Health Sciences Law Group, to discuss their session Data Strategy and Changing Privacy Regulations being held at the ABA Health Law Section’s 25th Emerging Issues in Healthcare Conference being held in New Orleans on April 3-6, 2024.  For more information and to register go to ambar.org/emi2024

Data Strategy and Changing Privacy Regulations

In this week’s Hlbytes Roundup, host Andrew Demetriou discusses the bytes on the latest in the Change Healthcare Breach and 340B both submitted by David Ermer. For more on these story and others like it, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

Change Healthcare and 340B Updates

In this week’s Hlbytes Roundup, host Jeff Wurzburg discusses the byte on the HHS OCR Updates Guidance on Third-Party Web Trackers submitted by Megan Kasper. For more on these story and others like it, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

HHS OCR Updates Guidance On Third - Party Web Trackers

In this week’s HLbytes Roundup, host Andy Demetriou discusses the byte on “FCA Counterclaims – Defendants Can Proceed with Counterclaims Against False Claims Act Whistleblowers ” submitted by Valerie Cohen and Eva-Maria Ghelardi. For more on these stories and others like them, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

FCA Counterclaims and Cyber Incident Reporting

This is Episode 1 of a two-part series on Advance Directives where host Stephanie Dorvil talks to Nathan Kottkamp of Williams Mullen in Richmond, VA, who is a member of the ABA Post-Acute Care Continuum Task Force about what everyone (not just Boomers and their families) needs to know about advance directives.  In advance of National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) on April 16, this is an important topic.  Of note, NHDD was founded in 2008 by Nathan Kottkamp, to provide clear, concise, and consistent information on healthcare decision-making to both the public and providers/facilities through the widespread availability and dissemination of simple, free, and uniform tools (not just forms) to guide the process.

Resources: 
The Conversation Project: https://theconversationproject.org/nhdd/, American Bar Association Guides and Toolkit: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/resources/health_care_decision_making/ad-counseling-guide/ and  https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_aging/2020-tool-kit-hcap.pdf.

Advance Directives – The Basics And Why Everyone Needs One

In this week’s HLbytes Roundup, host Jeff Wurzburg discusses the byte on the “CMS Issues Final Medicaid Managed Care Rule” submitted by Ellie Cochran. For more on these story and others like it, go to ambar.org/hlsnews and check your inbox every Friday for the next edition of HLbytes.

CMS Issues Final Medicaid Managed Care Rule

This is Episode 2 of a two-part series on Advance Directives where host Stephanie Dorvil talks to Nathan Kottkamp of Williams Mullen in Richmond, VA,   who is a member of the ABA Post-Acute Care Continuum Task Force about recent proposals to update the Uniform Law Commission’s Health Care Decisions Act that prescribes minimum requirements for advance directives. Nathan, drawing from his extensive ethics and legal expertise, worked with the Uniform Law Commission to update this law to encourage more U.S. jurisdictions to adopt more realistic, implementable standards for these very important documents.   

Resources: Uniform Law Commission – Health Care Decisions Act: https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?CommunityKey=3df274d6-776b-4780-8e4e-018a850ef44e; https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/publications/bifocal/vol45/vol45issue1/new-health-care-decisions-act/

Advance Directives – Updating The Uniform Law Commission’s Health Care Decisions Act

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